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Varian Medical Systems Privacy Statement

Varian Medical Systems Privacy Statement

Effective date: June 6, 2017

Varian Medical Systems, Inc. (Varian) is committed to respecting your privacy. As you visit our website, our intent is that your experience is informative, convenient and secure. Because Varian is committed to responsibly managing the personally identifiable information provided, we have adopted the following privacy statement to explain our commitment to your privacy.

This privacy statement applies to our varian.com domain, which includes MyVarian. This privacy statement is located on each online web page where personally identifiable information is collected. This privacy statement discloses Varian's practices with respect to the type of information that we gather, the way we use information internally and our policy regarding sharing information with others.

We encourage you to read this privacy statement carefully in order to ensure that you are in control of your personally identifiable information received by our company.

COLLECTION AND USE OF PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION

When you visit our website, we may ask you to provide personally identifiable information (PII). PII means any information that is related to an identified person, or that may be used to identify an individual, including: first and last name, email address, a home, postal or other physical address or phone number. We may also ask you to provide other personally identifiable information such as title, occupation, industry, or personal interests that is necessary or useful to provide a product or service that you have requested.

If you chose to make a purchase or sign up for an online service, we may collect additional information such as your credit card information, billing address, and other billing account information.

If you have signed up to receive newsletters or other marketing material, we may collect your first and last name, title, physical address and other personally identifiable information necessary to enhance your visit to Varian's website or request information regarding our products or services.

DOMAIN NAME AND IP ADDRESS

We collect the domain names and IP addresses of our visitors for statistical purposes, in order to measure use of our website, to improve the content or responsiveness of our site or to customise the content or layout of the site for the individual visitor. We may also aggregate information relating to our visitors' traffic patterns from the data that we collect and retain concerning the IP addresses and domain names of our visitors, and we may divulge such aggregate information about our users with third parties such as our business partners, distributors, and service and support providers.

We do not link aggregate user data with personally identifiable information. You may visit our website anonymously if you wish, by using appropriate software or web services available from or through third parties.

LOG FILES

We maintain a log file of all actions that are initiated or facilitated using our website, to capture, record and store data concerning the transaction. Access to this data is restricted to those who administer our network and public website.

E-MAIL ADDRESS

You should know that e-mail is not necessarily secure against all forms of interception. If your communication includes sensitive information about you and you would prefer not to transmit this information in this fashion, please contact us by post or telephone rather than e-mail.

We collect e-mail addresses that are volunteered by the visitor, from e-mail messages addressed to our company or its employees, or through visitor participation in surveys and site registrations.

We use the e-mail addresses for marketing purposes and to inform those interested in our products about events, products, services or other items of interest. Additionally, we use the e-mail addresses to notify visitors about recent updates to our website, to provide product or service news notifications or newsletters, and to confirm registrations or reserved seating at seminars and conferences. We also use the e-mail addresses to process orders for products, services, brochures and other written materials.

You may opt-out of receiving the promotional or marketing e-mails at any time by (1) clicking on the unsubscribe link located at the bottom of the message, (2) notifying us at the address specified at the bottom of any unwanted e-mail, or (3) changing your e-mail preferences in any user profile that you may have created. These opt-out procedures will not be available for e-mails that are necessary to provide confirmation of a completed transaction (such as a purchase, service request or change in the visitor's user profile) or for e-mails that confirm a visitor's status as a registered user of the Varian website.

OTHER PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION

We may use a mailing address or phone number that a visitor provides for a variety of Varian related reasons. We may send periodic mailings to visitors or make telephone calls to inform our visitors who have provided a mailing address or telephone number of new products, services or events. Your mailing address and telephone number may also be used to contact you about orders placed online, as a reminder about events for which you have registered, or to provide information that you have requested.

If you do not wish to receive such calls or mailings about new products, services or events, you may request to be removed from the contact list by contacting marketing communications at [email protected]. You may not opt out of service related communications.

PII RELEASED TO OUTSIDE PARTIES

Any information that you provide to us will be used for our purposes only. Except as specified in this privacy statement, your information will not be sold or shared with individuals outside the employ of Varian, or with other companies.

In some instances we may provide your name and delivery address to third parties that we use for delivering specific products or services to you (such as support services, shipping or direct mail organisations). In such cases, your name and delivery address is not retained by these third parties.

Some of Varian's services and direct mailing functions are run by outside vendors. These companies receive information provided by the visitor and supply the visitor with the material requested. Varian and these companies have entered into an agreement whereby the vendor has promised that the information supplied by Varian's visitors will not be shared with outside companies nor will such visitor information be used for any purposes other than to perform a service or supply materials requested by the visitor.

As a good corporate citizen, Varian complies with applicable law and legal obligations to respond to governmental, law enforcement and court requests for personally identifiable information and other information and data about our visitors and their transactions. In certain situations, Varian may be required to disclose personal data in response to lawful requests by public authorities, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements. Varian's Legal Department may access and use your personally identifiable information and other information or data to protect our rights, in the event of a dispute or in response to legal process, law enforcement inquiries or abuse of our website.

If Varian is involved in a merger, acquisition, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, you will be notified via email and/or a prominent notice on our website of any change in ownership or uses of your personally identifiable information, as well as any choices you may have regarding your personally identifiable information.

We may also disclose your personal information to any other third party with your prior consent.

TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES

Technologies such as cookies, beacons, tags and scripts are used by Varian and some of our marketing partners, analytics partners, and service providers. These technologies are used in analysing trends, administering the site, tracking users' movements around the site and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. We may receive reports based on the use of these technologies by these companies on an individual as well as aggregated basis.

We use cookies for authentication, to make it easier to navigate the site and to enable certain functionality on the site. Users can control the use of cookies at the individual browser level. If you reject cookies, you may still use our site, but your ability to use some features or areas of our site may be limited.

Third parties with whom we partner to provide certain features on our site, or to display advertising based upon your web browsing activity, use Local Storage Objects (LSOs) such as HTML5 to store content information and preferences. Various browsers may offer their own management tools for removing HTML5 LSOs.

ADVERTISING

We partner with a third-party ad network to manage our advertising on other sites. Our ad network partner uses cookies and web beacons to collect non-personally identifiable information about your activities on this and other websites to provide you targeted advertising based upon your interests. Please note this does not opt you out of being served advertising. You will continue to receive generic ads.

SECURITY

We follow generally-accepted industry standards to protect the personally identifiable information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personally identifiable information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security. We suggest that you change your passwords often, that your passwords include a combination of letters and numbers, and that you make certain that you are using a secure browser. When you enter sensitive information (such as a credit card number) on our order forms, we encrypt the transmission of that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL). Products and services are available which can help give you privacy protection while browsing the web.

If you have any questions about security on our website, you can email us at [email protected].

We safeguard the security of the data you send us with certain physical, electronic, and managerial procedures. We have taken reasonable precautions to protect against misuse, theft, loss, unauthorised access, disclosure, alteration or destruction of your personally identifiable information. For seminar registrations, our forms are sent through a server protected by a firewall. Additionally, we use industry-standard encryption to enhance the security of data transmissions. If there is ever a time when we will need to transfer or receive particularly sensitive information we will notify you in an appropriate fashion.

UPDATING YOUR PERSONAL PROFILE

If for any reason you wish to correct, update, or delete your personal profile please log on to your account in order make these changes. In case there is a problem in requesting for correcting, updating or deleting your personal profile, send an email to [email protected]. We will respond to your request to access personally identifiable information within 30 days.

DATA RETENTION

We will retain and use your personally identifiable information for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide you services. Also, we will retain and use this personally identifiable information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.

DATA FORWARDING

We maintain your personally identifiable information on servers and computers located in the United States and operated under our direct supervision and control. If you request information from us which best falls under the expertise of a foreign office, we may forward your contact information to that office so that office may respond to your request directly. Otherwise, we do not forward your personally identifiable information outside the United States.

DATA QUALITY

We will take reasonable steps to ensure that all data collected is accurate, complete and timely for the purposes for which they are to be used. In order to maintain an accurate database, we may supplement any of the information above with information you have provided to us by other means or channels such as sales representatives. We urge you to check your profile regularly to ensure that such information is accurate, complete and timely.

Your email address and other contact information is added to our general customer database so we may periodically contact with new product and promotion information.

CHILDREN'S PRIVACY

We do not structure our website to attract children. Accordingly, we do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone who is 13 years of age or younger.

THIRD PARTY SITES

Varian's website may contain links to other sites. When you click on one of these links you are being transferred to a website operated by someone other than Varian, and the operator of that website may have a different privacy statement. Varian does not share your personally identifiable information with these websites and is not responsible for their individual privacy practices. We encourage you to investigate the privacy policies of these operators.

When you are on our site, please be aware that we have links to other sites that may have the look and feel of our site. Be aware that you are on a site that is actually controlled by our third-party hosting service provider.

SOCIAL MEDIA FEATURES AND WIDGETS

Our website includes social media features, such as the Twitter button and Widgets, such as the Add This button or interactive mini-programs that run on our site. These features may collect your IP address, which page you are visiting on our site, and may set a cookie to enable the feature to function properly. Social media features and widgets are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on our website. Your interactions with these features are governed by the privacy statement of the company providing them.

SINGLE SIGN-ON

You can log in to some areas of our site using sign-in services by using Open ID providers. This type of service will authenticate your identity and provide you the option to share certain personally identifiable information with us, such as your name and email address to pre-populate our sign up form. Services like these may provide the option to post information about your activities on this website to your profile page or share postings with others within your network.

SERVICE PROVIDERS

We use third-party vendors for different uses such as web hosting, event registration, applying for a position with us, and credit card processing. When you sign up for these services, we will share information such as your PII or sensitive data as necessary for a third party to provide that service. PII collected via these sites are stored on the vendors' system, not at varian.com.

These third parties are prohibited from using your personally identifiable information for any other purpose.

PARTICIPATION IN PRIVACY PROTECTION PROGRAMMES

Varian participates in and has certified its compliance with the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework and the Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework. We are committed to subjecting all personal data received from European Union (EU) member countries and Switzerland, respectively, in reliance on each Privacy Shield Framework, to the Framework’s applicable Principles. To learn more about the Privacy Shield Frameworks, and to view our certification, visit the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Privacy Shield List. [https://www.privacyshield.gov]

Varian is responsible for the processing of personal data it receives, under each Privacy Shield Framework, and subsequently transfers to a third party acting as an agent on its behalf. Varian complies with the Privacy Shield Principles for all onward transfers of personal data from the EU and Switzerland, including the onward transfer liability provisions.

With respect to personal data receivedortransferred pursuant to the Privacy Shield Framework, Varian is subject to the regulatory enforcement powers of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. In certain situations, Varian may be required to disclose personal data in response to lawful requests by public authorities, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements.

DISPUTE RESOLUTION

If you have any complaints regarding our compliance with Privacy Shield or Swiss Safe Harbour programme, you should first contact us [email protected]m. If you have an unresolved privacy or data use concern that we have not addressed satisfactorily, please contact our U.S.-based third-party dispute resolution provider (free of charge) at https://feedback-form.truste.com/watchdog/request.

For human resources data we have agreed to cooperate with Data Protection Authorities.

Under certain conditions, more fully described on the Privacy Shield website, you may invoke binding arbitration when other dispute resolution procedures have been exhausted.

TESTIMONIALS

We post customer testimonials on our website which may contain personally identifiable information such as the customer's name. We do obtain the customer's consent prior to posting the testimonial to post their name along with their testimonial. If you wish to update or delete your testimonial, you can contact us using the information below.

FUTURE CHANGES

By using our website, you consent to the collection and use of your information as we have outlined in this privacy statement. Varian may decide to change this privacy statement from time to time. When we do, we will post those changes on this page so that you are always aware of the information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it. We will post a notice on this page for thirty (30) calendar days prior to the implementation of any material changes to this privacy statement. Such notice will provide information as to how you may remove your information from our database should you so desire. If we make material changes to this statement, we will notify you here, by email, or by means of a notice on our homepage.

OVERSIGHT AND QUESTIONS

We welcome comments and questions on this privacy statement. As stated above, we are dedicated to protecting your privacy, and we will make every reasonable effort to keep your information secure. If you have any questions or comments about this statement you can contact us electronically at [email protected]. Additionally you may contact us in writing via post at the following address: